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Sometimes, Working From Home Can Be Dangerous

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Published on October 3, 2023

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Generally, working from home is great. But there are a few jobs—just a few—where doing your job in your pajamas might have unexpected consequences. Take the role of “editor on gruesome horror film,” for example. Perhaps you’re just toiling away one morning, putting together the sound effects for a scene in an upcoming movie, minding your own business. But when your neighbors hear a lot of screaming coming from an unassuming abode, they might draw some incorrect conclusions.

That, basically, is what happened to Saw X editor Steve Forn, whose neighbors called the cops.

Director Kevin Greutert told this tale to NME, noting that Forn was editing a scene involving an “eye vacuum trap,” a series of words I never want to experience in any fashion, ever. Forn may have had the volume up a little too loud, given that his neighbors got an earful. NME writes:

“There was a knock at the door,” explained Greutert, “We have the doorbell [camera] video of the police walking up, [Forn answering the door] and the police saying, ‘The neighbours [have been] calling and saying someone’s being tortured to death in here.’

All’s well that ends well: Forn explained his occupation and invited the cops in to see the evidence; they, apparently, laughed, and told him it was fine. One can only hope that Forn invested in a pair of high-end headphones to avoid any future visits.

Saw X is now in theaters.

This post was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.

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Molly Templeton

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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